In our struggle for prayer the emotions are almost irrelevant; what we must bring to God is a complete, firm determination to be faithful to him and strive that God should live in us…That the will of God should be fulfilled in us is the only aim of prayer, and it is also the criterion of right prayer. It is not the mystical feeling we may have, or our emotions that make good praying.
–Anthony Bloom (1914-2003)
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God’s gift of Himself.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
We must love one another as God loves each one of us. To be able to love, we need a clean heart. Prayer is what gives us a clean heart. The fruit of prayer is a deepening of faith and the fruit of faith is love. The fruit of love is service, which is compassion in action.
–Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
As water extinguishes fire, so prayer extinguishes the heat of the passions.
— Saint John Chrysostom (347-407)
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
–Saint Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)
